Kunena 5.1 Released

Details

Published: 13 May 2018

Introduction

The Kunena team is proud to announce the arrival of Kunena 5.1.0 [K5.1.0] which is now available for download as a native Joomla extension for Joomla 3.8.x. This version addresses most of the issues that were discovered in K 5.0 and issues discovered during the development stages of K 5.1.

Kunena 5.1 is a project that has been a year in the making.

What's different?

Upgrading to K 5.1 involves changes that may affect Kunena's interoperability with other extensions installed on your site. For this reason it is advisable that you first test K 5.1.0 on a test site before you upgrade your live production site(s). At this stage the team is not treating interoperability with other Joomla extensions as the topmost priority. The main priority at this time is about installation/upgrade and operability as a standalone Joomla component.

Changes to the operation of the forum at this website following the release of K 5.1.0

The release of K 5.1 for J! 3.8.x is a major achievement. The development of K 5.1 was an important opportunty to overhaul the old K 5.0 code base. The K5.0.14 was the last K5.0.x build.

Core:

Removed < PHP 5.6.8 Support

Removed < Joomla 3.8 Support

The follow improvements we made into the core:

Joomla Namespacing

Removed Depricated code

Improved speed loading

Codestyle

Database checks

More triggers for 3rt party developers

More security improvements

Frontend:

New Features:

HTML5 audio and video support

Ajax upload avatars

Add option to disable signatures

Option: set default avatar

FA Icons in kunena menu

Sub menu items on kunena menu

Hide E-mail - Be able to show email only to registered users

2 editors: wysiwyg and bbcode (plugins works only with bbcode editor)

Feature: add option to disable personal message

Feature: add option to disable social

Smart URL autolinking

Feature: Optional username display

Restore the ability to see deleted posts in recent topics

Topic Template

Open graph support (facebook/twitter/ect)

Improve microdata

Backend:

Change users details:

Now you can edit all users details by the backend.

Template Improvements:

we have made some template improvements.

Donations

Any donations are needed for future support.

New Template

New website is coming after the summer.

Plugins/Modules

Plugins and modules are also updated and ready for Kunena 5.1.

Blue Eagle Template

A new RC will be availible on the download page from the template page.